While Vicky Nelson-Dunbar and Jean Hepner played the longest pro point on record, the overall record belongs to a couple of juniors.

In the 1977 Anaheim Junior Championships, 11 year olds Cari Hagey and Colette Kavanaugh played a point in the first game of the second set which lasted 51½ minutes. The ball crossed the net 1029 times before Hagey netted an overhead. Hagey did go on to win the match, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, in 5 hours, 15 minutes.

There have been 2 "Golden Matches" (one player winning every point) in tournament championships. In the 1910 Washington State Championship final, Hazel Wightman did it against a Miss Huiskamp. In the 1943 Tri-State Championship final, Pauline Betz did it to Miss C. Wolf.

Lmao! These stats are really interesting. 51 1/2 minutes is longer thne most of the few matches I play last!!! I'm sure there'd be a golden match or three if Venus, Serena, Jen, Martina, or Lindsay played Nancy or Dewonder.

Steffi Graf nearly had a Golden Set once, but at 4-0 in the first set, she lost two points to her opponent. She didn't lose another point in that set before or after that. I don't remember the name of the opponent but I do recall that it was played on a hardcourt in the US sometime in the late 80's. I remember reading that an interviewer pointed out to Steffi that she was 2 points away from a Golden Set. Steffi herself was not aware of that until she was told. I'm quite sure this happened, but it was so long ago that the details are sketchy to me now. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful than that.

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Vanity, how do you know all this stuff? Even I forgot about that! Your mind is an amazing place!

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I believe Graf's near golden set came against Carling Bassett Seguso in the second round of the Slims of Washington in '89. There was an article about Graf and her dominance in Sports Illustrated at the time and they used the fact that Graf won the first 20 points of the Bassett match as evidence of her dominance. Especially considering Carling had been a top 10 player at one time. Graf won that match 6-0, 6-0, still I give Carling a little lee-way since she had recently had a child.